Misaki, wanting something different, reached out to touch the man's cheek. His eyes went wide as Misaki felt the cold skin under his touch. Why cannot I just say hi? MIsaki tried opening his mouth but it felt as if it was sown shut. He jumped when the grabbed his hand, pulling it away from his cheek and placed a soft kiss on it. Misaki blushed, feeling the gentle lips on his hand. He found himself leaning closer.

"..Saki…Misaki...Misaki." Misaki opened his eyes to see Shinobu hovering over him. "Come on you have school." Misaki glared at him. "What's with the face? Having another sex dream?"

"They aren't sex dreams." He grumbled.

Shinobu snickered. "Oh right, you don't sleep long enough to get that far."

"Enough Shinobu." Kisa said from the kitchen, drinking coffee. "If Misaki is going to have sex I'd rather his first time not be in his dreams with some stranger."

"Can we not talk about this?" Misaki regretted telling these two about it. "And I thought parents were supposed to be like 'you cannot have sex until you are 40.'" He tried to imitate a strict parent by using a deep voice. The two chuckled, "obviously I am not like most parents. No go brush your teeth and get some clothes on."

"Whoop there it is." Shinobu and Misaki laughed. "Shinobu, go home."

An hour later Shinobu and Misaki were walking Misaki to school. Shinobu already finished high school but had no interest in college so decided to go when Misaki does. "So you think you will ever meet the man in your dreams?"

"I don't want to talk about this?" Misaki already felt embarassed enough by it. Shinobu pushed on, "Come on Misaki it's not that bad. Maybe he is your one true love. You are probably connected to each other and that is how you can visit each other in your dreams."

"If he even exists."

"I think he does. He seems too real to be a figment of your imagination."

"But I don't even know his name."

"Hey." Shinobu stopped him. "Stop being so negative. I know for a fact you will meet this man one day. How I know? Love is a strong emotion for angels, which is why we only get to fall in love once, and this man seems to be the only one besides us three that you show even a small amount of love."

Misaki smiled, "You're such a sap sometimes Shinobu." He chuckled, pushing him. "Whatever, now get to school. Don't forget we need to figure out how we are going to meet this Yukina." Even if Shinobu was weary about Yukina being an angel, it still was nice to see Kisa thinking about himself. Something Misaki horribly picked up on.

...

"Are you alright Kisa? You seem tensed?"

Kisa shook his head, chuckling nervously. "What? No I'm fine Mito?" She eyed him strangely but let it go. Kisa sighed. Yukina was supposed to come pick him up today and he did not know how he was supposed to act. Yukina was an angel, part of the group that Misaki's brother is part of. Miyagi says Yukina was new and Misaki seemed not to know the name but what if his brother has pictures of Misaki when he was younger and showed Yukina. Misaki has not really changed from when he was 10. And then if Yukina somehow sees Misaki what if he tells his brother and he comes to try and take Misaki back.

In reality it was probably best for Misaki to go back. It never made sense for them to cast him out when he was 10. He recalled a big fight going on so what if Misaki was sent on purpose. If that was the case then he truly belongs in Aessa, not down here. And then the fact that since Yukina is an angel that means he can only fall inlove once and as much as Kisa was looking forward, he could not continue any kind of relationship with him.

Tonight I have to tell him he's not my type. Kisa laughed to himself. He used to do this all the time in the past. Now it felt heartbreaking.

Kisa looked at the time to see he had five minutes left of work. His stomach started clenching and he could feel himself sweat. Right at six he changed out of his apron, putting it into his bag, and headed out. Outside he did not see Yukina around. There is trouble with the angels, maybe he has to stay behind. "Kisa-san." He turned to see Yukina run up. "Sorry…I'm...late." He bent over, trying to catch his breath.

"You okay?"

Yukina took one last breath and stood up. "Yeah. I don't have your number and I didn't want you to be waiting so I ran as fast as I could."

"You didn't have to do that." Yukina's smile made Kisa blush. "I was looking forward to this." Is this man for real?

"Uh, so, what did you have in mind?"

They went to a secluded restaurant, not many people around. "Why were you in such a hurry?" Kisa asked.

"My roommates decided to have a meeting that went longer than it was supposed to, but that was because two of them started fighting over something stupid."

Must be the other Emerald members. "How many roommates you have?" Kisa figured he might as well get some information out of him.

"Five of them. There's Takano, Ritsu, Akihiko, Nowaki, and Hiroki."

Kisa was surprised by the amount and wished he knew Misaki's brother's name. "That's a lot. I don't think I could handle so many people."

"It gets tough, especially since four of them are in relationships, and they tend to fight, a lot, but we all make a pretty good team." Yukina smiled. "How's Misaki?"

"Fine. Has finals now that are killing both of us but if he wants to get into the college he wants then he has to work hard." Kisa sighed, remembering the exhausted hours of staying up studying with him. Misaki was smart but tended to do poorly on tests and essays.

"What school?"

"Mitsuhashi?" Yukina's eyes went wide which made Kisa wonder why. "Why there?"

"That's the school I graduated from and he decided he wanted to go there." Yukina seemed to relax. "Sounds like he wants to follow in your footsteps."

Kisa laughed. "I hope not." Yukina looked at him with confusion. "I'm not a good role model."

"I doubt that." Yukina smiled at him and Kisa could feel his heart skip a beat. After they finished eating Yukina suggested they go on a walk in the park. As they were walking Yukina reached over and grabbed his hand. "Um?"

"Is this alright." Even his frown looked handsome that Kisa shook his head and looked away, cheeks on fire from feeling Yukina's large hand. "You said you were going for a publishing company, which one?"

"Uh it was Onodera Publishing. I wanted to be a manga editor."

"Manga?"

"Yeah, I have always liked shoujo manga since I was little and my father took me to a bookstore and I wandered into that section. I can't draw to save my life so I figure editing would be just as great. Unfortuantely I did the same thing with Misaki and now he wants to be an editor." Kisa chuckled.

Yukina chuckled, "how did your parents take it when you adopted Misaki?" That's when Kisa stopped, his smile gone. "Kisa?"

"Well, they do not know I have Misaki. My mother passed away when I was seven and I have not spoken to my father in over 12 years." Yukina's eyes went wide and Kisa never felt so ashamed of this before. "My father and I never saw eye-to-eye and it became too much."

Yukina frowned, obviously not buying it, "What did he do?"

Kisa could not look him in the eye. "I told him I only liked guys after he tried to get me to marry this girl and he disowned me." He heard Yukina gasp. "My mother left me a trust fund and I already had school paid so it's not like I had to struggle."

He heard nothing from Yukina and grew worried. Was it too much to unload on him? "Yuk-." He stopped when Yukina suddenly wrapped his arms around him. "Yukina?"

"It's so unfair." Yukina's voice cracked. "No one deserves to be treated that way by those related to them by blood."

"It's fine. I got past it." Yukina pulled away and Kisa was surprised to see a single tear in his eyes. "I haven't even told Misaki about this. He thinks both my parents died."

"Why don't you tell him?"

Kisa sighed, "I don't know. It's just...I feel he looks up at me like some high being and I don't want him to know that I really am nothing like that. Even after eight years I still feel I'm doing this whole family thing wrong."

Yukina went silent again and suddenly put his hands in his hair, ruffling it quite violently. "What are you doing!?" Kisa pushed him away. Yukina smiled. "Getting those insecurities out of your head." Kisa looked at him weirdly. "Kisa-san what you've been through and what you are doing for Misaki are no small acts. I don't know Misaki and even I can see your past will not change how he sees you. You need to have more confidence." Yukina went to ruffle his hair again but Kisa dodged. "Alright I get it." Yukina laughed and Kisa found himself laughing with him. "What were your parents like?"